Ghaziabad: An 80-year-old was tortured, gagged with towel and murdered in his own house at Uttranchal Vihar Colony in Loni Border on Wednesday. The body was found on the ground floor and the victim’s feet and hands were tied with a rope. Police suspect that he was assaulted first and then his throat was slit.Ramesh…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday met BJP national president Nitin Nabin to discuss the cabinet reshuffle in Goa. One cabinet berth has been vacant since Oct 2025 after the death of agriculture minister Ravi Naik.The decision to fill the cabinet berth is yet to be taken, but there has been buzz in political…
Gorakhpur: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday declared the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) results, triggering celebrations across schools in Gorakhpur.Among the top scorers in Class X, Pavani Maurya of Little Flower School and Akshita Gupta of HP Children Academy secured 99.4% each, bringing laurels to their institution.In…
Ahmedabad: The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) chick hatched in Gujarat’s Naliya grasslands on March 26, 2026, only to go missing since April 19 is now feared dead. The forest department issued a statement on Thursday expressing the likelihood of the chick being predated by carnivores.The birth of the chick, locally known as Ghorad, had been…
Amritsar: The Sarbat Khalsa group, known for appointing parallel jathedars of Sikh temporal seats including the Akal Takht, deliberated on key issues in Punjab during a meeting held here on Thursday, indicating a potential entry into the political landscape.Jarnail Singh Sakhira, the chief organiser of Sarbat Khalsa held on Nov 10, 2015, at Chabba village…
Pune: A drunk man on Wednesday night hit five people with his friend’s car at a vegetable market in Balajinagar, off Pune-Satara Road, after the latter told him to park it.Worse, he did not have a driving licence. Senior inspector Vitthal Pawar of the Sahakarnagar police station said, “We arrested the driver, Akbar Tamboli (30)…
Shillong: The Ri-Bhoi district police force has busted a gang of inter-state ATM thieves, active across the country, and arrested six accused in connection with an ATM theft case that occurred two years ago in the district, the state police department said on Thursday.Following an incident of theft or break-in that occurred at Meghalaya Cooperative…
Lucknow: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, asking him to “wake up and apologise publicly” over the party’s stand on the Women’s Reservation (Amendment) Bill.Addressing the issue in the UP Legislative Council, Maurya said Akhilesh Yadav should declare support whenever a session is…
Jaisalmer: ITBP assistant commandant Raghunath Singh Bhati, a native of Adbala village in Jaisalmer, was cremated with full military honours Thursday after he succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident during election duty in West Bengal.Bhati died on April 29 at a military hospital in Delhi, where he had been undergoing treatment since the…
NEW DELHI: For the second successive year, Kailash Manasarovar Yatra, organised by ministry of external affairs in coordination with Chinese govt, will take place from June to Aug 2026. The Yatra had been reopened by China last year amid signs of improvement in bilateral ties, following completion of the troop disengagement process in eastern Ladakh.This…
